Some fans who attended the frigid Miami Dolphins vs. Kansas City Chiefs playoff game in January had to undergo amputations after suffering frostbite.
The temperature for the Dolphins-Chiefs wild-card playoff game was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit , and wind gusts made for a windchill of minus 27 degrees F.Research Medical Center didn't provide exact numbers but said in a statement that it treated dozens of people who had experienced frostbite during an 11-day cold snap in January. Twelve of those people — including some who were at the Jan. 13 game — had to undergo amputations involving mostly fingers and toes.
The game in Kansas City went on as scheduled because the frigid weather didn’t present similar problems getting to Arrowhead Stadium, even though the National Weather Service warned of “dangerously cold” windchills. Frostbite can occur on exposed skin within 30 minutes, Dr. Megan Garcia, the medical director of the Grossman Burn Center at Research, said in a statement that answered one of the top questions she is asked. The timing can be even shorter if there is a windchill, she said.
Fans were allowed to bring heated blankets into the stadium and small pieces of cardboard to place under their feet on the cold concrete.at Lambeau Field in a game that came to be known as the Ice Bowl. The windchill that day was minus 48 F .
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